G. Guagliano, Manuela Legnardim, Cristina Volpini, N. Bloise, S. Dotti, R. Villa, L. Visai, P. Petrini
{"title":"Drug-induced hepatotoxicity studied in a 3D, in vitro model of the liver","authors":"G. Guagliano, Manuela Legnardim, Cristina Volpini, N. Bloise, S. Dotti, R. Villa, L. Visai, P. Petrini","doi":"10.4081/bse.2021.172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/bse.2021.172","url":null,"abstract":"Drug development is a high failure rate process; too many drugs fail during clinical trials because of severe hepatotoxicity. This situation can be significantly improved by redesigning preclinical trials, and privileging the use of high-throughput in vitro models, by combining cell-based in vitro models and material-based models.","PeriodicalId":89077,"journal":{"name":"Annual ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference. ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88631661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Mancini, Ermes Botte, C. Magliaro, A. Ahluwalia
{"title":"Toward scalable in vitro models: a novel experimental and computational pipeline for the identification of cellular metabolic parameters","authors":"P. Mancini, Ermes Botte, C. Magliaro, A. Ahluwalia","doi":"10.4081/bse.2021.179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/bse.2021.179","url":null,"abstract":"Oxygen utilization by cells has a crucial role in the design of advanced in vitro models. The aim of this study is to develop an experimental and computational pipeline for identifying oxygen metabolism parameters. We applied the approach to HepG2 cell monolayer cultures, demonstrating that such parameters depend on cell density.","PeriodicalId":89077,"journal":{"name":"Annual ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference. ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74978557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Berardo, A. Ferrigno, Veronica Siciliano, M. Cagna, P. Richelmi, M. Vairetti, L. G. Pasqua
{"title":"Optimization of primary hepatocyte isolation for the pharmacological characterization of metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) s ubtype 5: A study on Reduction","authors":"C. Berardo, A. Ferrigno, Veronica Siciliano, M. Cagna, P. Richelmi, M. Vairetti, L. G. Pasqua","doi":"10.4081/bse.2021.151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/bse.2021.151","url":null,"abstract":"To minimize the number of animals used during experiments, it is important to choose the suitable enzyme according to the final goal. In our work, we demonstrated the superiority of collagenase IV in the maintenance of functional transmembrane receptor, thus the pharmacological activity, in isolated rat hepatocytes.","PeriodicalId":89077,"journal":{"name":"Annual ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference. ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76312161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Oldani, C. Milani, F. Gaboardi, M. Manzoni, A. Villa, F. Stefanini, P. Melchioretto, E. Monti, M. Forcella, C. Urani, P. Fusi
{"title":"Cadmium elicits alterations in mitochondrial morphology and functionality in C3H10T1/2Cl8 mouse fibroblast cell","authors":"M. Oldani, C. Milani, F. Gaboardi, M. Manzoni, A. Villa, F. Stefanini, P. Melchioretto, E. Monti, M. Forcella, C. Urani, P. Fusi","doi":"10.4081/bse.2021.185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/bse.2021.185","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we exploit the widely used, well known CTA, which allows following healthy cells transformation into a malignant phenotype, to understand the early metabolic deregulation and events in cadmium-induced carcinogenesis.","PeriodicalId":89077,"journal":{"name":"Annual ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference. ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73599833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Danila Cianciosi, L. Regolo, M. Battino, F. Giampieri
{"title":"Effect of manuka honey on 5-fluorouracil chemosensitivity in colonspheres enriched with cancer stem (-like) cells","authors":"Danila Cianciosi, L. Regolo, M. Battino, F. Giampieri","doi":"10.4081/bse.2021.163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/bse.2021.163","url":null,"abstract":"Manuka honey (MH) has an in vitro chemosensitizing effect against 5-Fluorouracil (5-Fu) in colonspheres enriched with cancer stem (-like) cells (CSCs-like); these interesting findings, although preliminary, suggest a potential synergistic action of MH with 5-Fu, which could be useful in deepening the studies on natural compounds to be used in association with conventional medical therapies.","PeriodicalId":89077,"journal":{"name":"Annual ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference. ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82833076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Novel 3D in vitro retina model to investigate mechanisms involved in age-related macular degeneration","authors":"Beatrice Belgio, S. Mantero, F. Boschetti","doi":"10.4081/bse.2021.150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/bse.2021.150","url":null,"abstract":"RetinaIn the present study, we present a strategy to develop a 3R-compliant in vitro retina model to study age-related macular degeneration pathways.","PeriodicalId":89077,"journal":{"name":"Annual ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference. ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91246372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Cerqueni, A. Scalzone, Xiao-Nong Wang, C. Licini, K. Dalgarno, A. k, P. Gentile, M. Belmonte
{"title":"An osteochondral bio-engineered model to in vitro mimicking osteoarthritis","authors":"G. Cerqueni, A. Scalzone, Xiao-Nong Wang, C. Licini, K. Dalgarno, A. k, P. Gentile, M. Belmonte","doi":"10.4081/bse.2021.162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/bse.2021.162","url":null,"abstract":"To date, treatments of Osteoarthritis are not able to provide the pathology regression. In vitro models are therefore necessary to: i) investigate the mechanisms involved in the disease evolution, ii) identify pharmacological targets, and iii) perform predictive tests for new drug delivery strategies.","PeriodicalId":89077,"journal":{"name":"Annual ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference. ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88034637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hanna Trebesova, F. Turrini, G. Olivero, Valentina Orlandi, D. Donno, G. Beccaro, R. Boggia, A. Pittaluga, M. Grilli
{"title":"Video tracking analysis of behavioral scores: The Finnover experience","authors":"Hanna Trebesova, F. Turrini, G. Olivero, Valentina Orlandi, D. Donno, G. Beccaro, R. Boggia, A. Pittaluga, M. Grilli","doi":"10.4081/bse.2021.197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/bse.2021.197","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to reduce and refine the number of animals subjected to behavioral analysis by ToxTrac software during the European project Interreg-ALCOTRA “Finnover”.","PeriodicalId":89077,"journal":{"name":"Annual ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference. ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference","volume":"273 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86360443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mariangela Massaro, R. Palek, J. Rosendorf, A. Malečková, L. Cervenkova, Roshan K. Singh, R. Polak, V. Liska, V. Moulisová
{"title":"Recellularization of decellularized porcine caval veins","authors":"Mariangela Massaro, R. Palek, J. Rosendorf, A. Malečková, L. Cervenkova, Roshan K. Singh, R. Polak, V. Liska, V. Moulisová","doi":"10.4081/bse.2021.181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/bse.2021.181","url":null,"abstract":"Decellularized material has been reported to be more suitable for cells to grow when compared to synthetic materials because repopulating cells are provided with the structural environment of native tissue. The aim of this study is to prepare and to test porcine caval veins through their decellularization followed by repopulation with human endothelial cells.","PeriodicalId":89077,"journal":{"name":"Annual ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference. ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference","volume":"289 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77149526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Canta, Désirée Baruffaldi, I. Roppolo, A. Chiappone, C. Pirri, F. Frascella
{"title":"3D printed microfluidic devices for cell culture","authors":"M. Canta, Désirée Baruffaldi, I. Roppolo, A. Chiappone, C. Pirri, F. Frascella","doi":"10.4081/bse.2021.161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4081/bse.2021.161","url":null,"abstract":"A successful application of the 3D printed materials in the biomedical field requires extensive studies to ensure their biocompatibility at every step of the process. Here, different components suitable for cell applications, including a microfluidic device, were 3D printed using common resins and a deep analysis of their biocompatibility and post printed protocols was conducted.","PeriodicalId":89077,"journal":{"name":"Annual ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference. ORNL Biomedical Science and Engineering Center Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82766443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}